Voyager Company
The Voyager Company was a pioneer in CD-ROM production in the 1980s and early 1990s. It was founded in 1984 by four partners: Jon Turell, Bill Becker, Aleen Stein, and Robert Stein in Santa Monica, California, and later moved to New York City. The firm took its name from the Voyager space craft. In partnership with Janus Films, the company published Criterion Collection">The Criterion Collection">Criterion Collection, a pioneering home video collection of classic and important contemporary films on LaserDisc. Voyager introduced the release of special editions on LaserDisc.
In 1986 it decided to make it company policy to only release widescreen films on LaserDisc in their original aspect ratio rather than pan and scan formats that was common for home media releases at the time. Many other labels followed suit.
In 1994, the partnership was diluted by selling 20% of it to the von Holzbrinck Publishing Group, a German holding company. In 1997, the Holzbrinck Group withdrew with its 20%, the name "Voyager", and half of the CD-ROM rights. Robert Stein took the other half of the CD-ROM rights and the Toolkit rights. This left the Criterion Collection in the possession of three of the original partners, each with a third: Aleen Stein, the Becker family, and the Turell family.
Releases
LaserDiscs
De ItaliaThe Great Quake of '89 The National Gallery of ArtDevo: The Complete Truth About De-EvolutionThe Residents: Twenty Twisted Questions LouvreTheatre of the Imagination: Radio Stories by Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre To New Horizons: Ephemeral Films 1931–1945The Vancouver DiscViennaYou Can't Get There From Here: Ephemeral Films 1945–1960The Voyager VideostackBoyz n the Hood- Bram Stoker's Dracula
- Cries and Whispers
- Damage
- The Killer
- The Man Who Fell to Earth
- The PlayerThe Inland SeaCall It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built
- François Truffaut: 25 Years, 25 Films
- Polyester
- ''Ugetsu''
CD-ROMs
A [Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night] A World Alive All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis By Morton SubotnickAmanda Stories American Poetry The Nineteenth CenturyAmnesty Interactive Baseball's Greatest Hits The Beat ExperienceThe CD Companion to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Ninth Symphony CD-ROM|CD-ROM]The CD Companion To Mozart's Dissonant Quartet The CD Companion to Dvorak The New World Symphony The CD Companion to Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring"Cinema Volta – Weird Science & Childhood MemoryCircus!: An Interactive Cartoon Comic Book Confidential The Complete Maus ''Count DownCriterion Goes to the Movies The Day After TrinityDazzleoidsEphemeral Films 1931–1960 Exotic Japan – A Guide to Japanese Culture and Language by Nikki YokokuraFirst Emperor of China First Person: "Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine" Donald Norman, three Norman books and a number of technical papers First Person: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Live from Death Row First Person: The Society of Mind, starring Dr. Marvin Minsky For All Mankind If Monks Had Macs... Invisible Universe, starring Dr. Fiorella TerenziI Photograph To Remember / Fotografio Para RecordarLast Chance to See Laurie Anderson's Puppet Motel Macbeth Mystery Science Theater 3000: The CD-ROM Our Secret Century: The Darker Side of the American Dream Painters PaintingPlanetary TaxiPeople Weekly – 20 Amazing Years Of Pop CulturePoetry in Motion Poetry in Motion IIThe Residents Freak ShowRodney's Wonder WindowSacred and Secular: The Aerial Photography of Marilyn BridgesSalt of the Earth: A Film of Politics and PassionShining FlowerSilly Noisy HouseSo I've Heard: A Collector's Guide to Compact DiscsStephen Jay Gould On EvolutionTheatre of the Imagination: Radio Stories by Orson Welles and the Mercury TheatreThis Is Spinal TapThe Trout QuintetTruths & Fictions – A Journey from Documentary to Digital PhotographyUnderstanding McLuhan With Open Eyes: Images from the Art Institute of ChicagoThe Voyager Audiostack''CD-ROM (Distribution only)
- Blam! 1 CD-ROM